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Cost of Quality

International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development, 2019
Quality management is the key to sustainability in any manufacturing business. The cost of quality has been the topic of discussions these days in various research forums. The purpose of the study is to present a review of prior literature and present a complete picture of past, present and future directions in the domain of Cost of Quality.
Kau, M. L., Nel, N.
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Cost of quality: The hidden costs

Total Quality Management, 2000
(2000). Cost of quality: The hidden costs. Total Quality Management: Vol. 11, No. 4-6, pp. 844-848.
Suresh Kumar Krishnan   +2 more
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Quality costs: a critique of some ‘economic cost of quality’ models

International Journal of Production Research, 1988
Abstract While carrying out a study of the collection and use of quality-related costs in manufacturing industry the authors found in the literature many notional models purporting to indicate the relationships between the major categories of quality costs and a few sets of real data. Despite being based on common principles, there are wide differences
J. J. PLUNKETT, B. G. DALE
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Cost of Quality

Engineering Management Journal, 1991
ABSTRACTThe Cost of Quality (COQ) is one of the fundamental tools in the Total Quality Management process. How a company calculates the COQ for research and development (R&D) and the role R&D plays in calculating COQ, in general, is the subject of this article.
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The Cost-Quality Balance

JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 1987
Present day fiscal pressures dictate the need for balancing nursing costs and quality concerns. This article presents logical and organized methodologies for interrelating quality compliance, patient volume, and nursing resource consumption and determining the costs associated with the delivery of quality nursing care.
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Differential cost of quality

2012 Proceedings Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 2012
The concept of differential cost of quality, C, is introduced as an expression of the urgency of implementing a corrective action for a known quality or reliability problem affecting fielded equipment and equipment currently being shipped. C can be used to prioritize the corrective action against other improvement opportunities.
J. Michael Fife, D. Dax Widener
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Software costs of quality

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 1990
The costs of quality for software, a methodology for the collection of costs, and how the costs of quality can be used to point the way toward quality improvement and significant cost reductions are discussed. Root cause analysis and corrective action using software costs of quality are described.
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Optimization of quality costs

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 2003
Abstract The main goals of quality management in all industries are customer satisfaction by delivery of defect-free products and the radical reduction of defect rates and quality costs in the production. Controlled technological processes are the most important way to reach these goals. These principles are standard in mechanical engineering and are
M. Oppermann, W. Sauer, H. Wohlrabe
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Uses of quality costs

1991
The majority of authors on the subject of quality costing focus on the use of quality costs. Indeed there is no point in collecting cost information if it is not to be used. Its usefulness is the only justification for its collection and clearly this is one of the most important criteria in setting up a cost collection system.
Barrie G. Dale, James J. Plunkett
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Reporting of quality costs

1991
The objectives of quality cost collection and the views on what costs should or should not be collected on a regular basis have been discussed in Chapter 3. This chapter examines the key issues to be considered in the reporting of quality costs.
Barrie G. Dale, James J. Plunkett
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